Work in Progress

I have just finished a number of projects, and am now in the very early stages of two new ones. 

• With Núria Codina Solà and Jack McMartin, I acquired funding to start a large-scale research project (2026-30, three junior researchers) entitled 'EMLIT: Pluriactivity, Digitality, and Mobility and the Emergence of World Literature.' The project takes seriously the observation that world literature is increasingly made in unstable conditions marked by pluriactive cultural labor, digital mediation, and changing mobility regimes. Theorizing contemporary world literature as a process of permanent emergence, EMLIT generates innovative and empirically grounded insights into the aesthetic, lived, and institutional realities of contemporary world literature and its agents. It studies pluriactivity, digitality, and mobility in three key sites of cross-cultural literary production: transnational talent-development networks, digital magazines, and writer’s residencies. 
• My next monograph project (provisionally entitled Barely Novelistic) centers the poorly understood notion of tone as a way into novel theory. Starting from the observation that a significant strand of contemporary novel writing approximates non-novelistic modes (diaries, social media posts, Wikipedia-pages, ...) in its own notation, it aims to theorize tone as, among other things, the minimal difference between novel and non-novel. Real work on the book will hopefully begin during a fellowship at Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 2027 as part of the large-scale 'Politics of Tone' project.